{"id":574034,"date":"2023-01-25T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=574034"},"modified":"2023-02-04T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T12:56:56","slug":"indian-restaurant-urged-to-solve-mystery-of-diner-who-had-been-dead-for-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/indian-restaurant-urged-to-solve-mystery-of-diner-who-had-been-dead-for-9-years","title":{"rendered":"Indian restaurant urged to solve mystery of diner who had been &#8216;dead for 9 years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a Netflix documentary in the making, but a widow is trying to find out how her late husband ended up at their local Indian restaurant nine years after his death. Lucy Watson, 59, was watching a promotional video posted to Facebook by Spice Cottage when one of its diners caught her eye. Instantly she was sure that the unassuming punter sitting eating his korma was none other than her husband Harry &#8211; even though he died almost a decade ago. But for anyone thinking, &#8220;big deal? They probably used old footage?&#8221; here&#8217;s the kicker: the restaurant insists the clip was filmed a couple of weeks ago. The popular curry house, located in the quaint village of Westbourne, West Sussex, uploaded the unintentionally explosive recording on 16 January, with the caption: &#8220;New year, new mood! For the last few weeks, we&#8217;ve been working hard to make our dining experience even more memorable.&#8221; And memorable it most certainly has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a Netflix documentary in the making, but a widow is trying to find out how her late husband ended up at their local Indian restaurant nine years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}